Shealy Roy Ardell Jr MINIMAX RS
N313RS is a Shealy Roy Ardell Jr MINIMAX RS, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1999. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Snow Hill, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 8, 2001 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 26, 2001.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Shealy Roy Ardell Jr
- Model
- MINIMAX RS
- Serial number
- P-701
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax SEE BOMBADIER
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1999
- Transponder code
- A3537E (octal 50651576)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 8, 2001
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 26, 2001
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00193924
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Shealy Roy Ardell JR
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 2040 Griffin Rd
Snow Hill, NC 28580-8280
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N313RS links to the rest of the register
- Shealy Roy Ardell Jr 1 aircraft on the register
- Rotax all models (one FAA code) 2,585 aircraft with this engine series
- Snow Hill, NC 3 aircraft registered in this town
- North Carolina 7,120 aircraft registered
- Report filed on this aircraft: Piston, ring failure · 1995-05-11
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The public federal record on N313RS, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Shealy Roy Ardell JR, an individual, certificate issued June 8, 2001, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 26, 2001, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial P-701 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N313RS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Douglas C-118 (serial 533292, cancelled March 10, 1997). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N313RS: Accident on July 20, 1996 at Russian Mission, AK: fatal, destroyed (4 fatal). Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Douglas DC-6A · operated under 121
fatigue failure of the master connecting rod, which originated from corrosion pitting, subsequently compromised the engine crankcase, and resulted in a fire; and failure of the flight crew to follow emergency procedures by pulling the fire handle before feathering the propeller, which diminished the effectiveness of the fire suppression system.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data